Stockwell Toilet Watch

Thursday, 30 April 2009

CLOWNISH "FINGERS OUT" AT LOCAL LABOUR's "WE LOVE LARKHALL" BLOG?

Do CLICK on the above CHEESY image to ENLARGE text and "read all about it".

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Stockwell Toilet Watch (STW) posted a "comment" (see below) on the "WE LOVE LARKHALL" local LABOUR PARTY BLOG which had featured (as above) a clownish post about the new LAMBETH COUNCIL "MAYOR" who constituancy-wise more specifically represents CLAPHAM.

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Subject to local Labour Party moderator approval will our "Comment" ever see the light of day?

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"We've got no public toilets at all in central Stockwell instead we get clownish mug shots like this. Tip the Mayor off that the signage for the Community Toilet Scheme is mis-dislayed at the mis-called REVOLUTION BAR in Clapham High Street (so that it's barely visible). I have raised the matter a couple of times via the Secretary of the Stockwell Labour Party (Alex B) but nothing has happened - so maybe the Mayor can put on his robes and get down there. And while he's about it what about the electronic pop-up pissoirs (that were promoted as "space age" in LAMBETH Life) but which are still not functioning. So the message is - cut the smug Mayoral mug shots and let's have some very basic and greatly needed improvements. Of course there are no votes in public loos – that’s why in contrast half a million quid has just got shafted to the Stockwell Portuguese Community by Steve Reed so-called leader of Lambeth Council. Have a nice day."

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Having been decided upon in January 2008 the piddlin (ie. pathetic jesture) local LABOUR electronic pop-up pissoirs refered to in the above STW comment were reportedly supposed to come into operation last OCTOBER and of course they still aren't.

The lovely manor of CLAPHAM is especially notable because it has several public toilet facilities from yester-year which are still in-situ having now been locked barred and bolted for many years. Anyway dressing-up for a "beaming local clown-spot" sure won't address the problem.-----------

Having no public toilets is an abuse and the Council who closed and destroyed them over these past 2 decades are the abusers.

Tuesday, 28 April 2009

LO AND BEHOLD ROYAL CHARLES AND HIS MUMMY ON BOG WALLS.

Firstly sincere heart felt apologies for this blogspot intrusion into SWINE FLU HYSTERIA and for not even wearing a FULL FACE MASK. ----------------------At page 7 of his slim 1979 anecdotal volume LOOS THROUGH THE AGES loo-ologist RICHARD WOOD has a small passing anecdote sadly unsupported by photography (oh if only!!) regarding the loo wall illustrations that during the latter years of the late Princess Diana had decorated her KENSINGTON PALACE bolt hole. This is his anecdote: “Do you have pictures on your loo walls? It is said that Diana, Princess of Wales, decorated her loo at KENSINGTON PALACE with cartoons of her ex husband”.----------------------That members of the Upper Crud should be the topic of toilet or toilet wall anecdote seems to be quite appropriate and such low lives have variously featured on this blog before – indeed as recently as > here <>here----

-----------By chance Mr Wood’s anecdote strikes a special resonance with STOCKWELL TOILET WATCH because as per above here on the elegant “POOR KID RICH KID” STUDLEY ESTATE Kilroy’s own loo wall has a "CRIES OF OLD BAILEY" small UPPER CRUD item of artwork made back in 2002 to commemorate the sudden closure of the criminal OLD BAILEY prosecution of Diana’a ex BUTLER PAUL BURRELL.------------------QUEENIKINS had suddenly suffered an extremely fortunate brainstorm – and thereby recalled a conversation between herself and DIANA’s ex Butler PAUL BURRELL then on trial for quite serious and EXTREMELY EMBARRASSING crimes. The trial was immediately closed down and of course QUEENIKINS didn’t get called to Court to testify and had thus avoided having her recollections subjected to cross examination – heaven forbid that in the name of justice an UPPER CRUD should have to suffer such an un-holy indignity.

Wednesday, 22 April 2009

Royal protection officers posed for 'comical' photographs on the Queen's throne, traded hardcore pornography in locker rooms and handled firearms while drunk, a court heard yesterday.

-----------------------Members of Scotland Yard's Royalty Protection Command based at Buckingham and St James's Palaces also sold steroids, fell asleep on duty and ran gambling rings, it was claimed.

-----------------------On other occasions they smuggled friends into royal garden parties and offered them free Palace parking for shopping sprees, it was alleged.-------------------------'Life of luxury' Royalty Protection Officer Paul Page and his wife Laura, seen leaving court, are accused of running a £3million property scam.

------------------The sensational claims were made at the trial of former Royal Protection Officer Paul Page, 37, accused of masterminding a £3million swindle from the Palace.

-------------------He set up a fake company and convinced 57 victims to plough their money into non-existent property developments, it is said.

--------------------The ex-officer, who drove a fleet of luxury cars including a Porsche, started the scheme to recoup losses from the failed 'currency club', a spread-betting syndicate he ran from the Palace, it is claimed.

----------------------His wife of 12 years Laura, 42, is accused of channelling the money through her bank accounts over four years.

----------------------The pair are also said to have threatened to kill a childhood friend after he told police he had lost thousands of pounds in the alleged scam.

-------------------Some 20 officers parted with a total of at least £1.3million after being duped by Mr Page, jurors have heard.

----------------John Cooper, defending Mr Page, suggested there was a 'culture of breaking the rules and stretching the limits' among Royal Protection Officers.

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Cross-examining Sergeant Adam McGregor, who claims to have poured £150,000 into the swindle, Mr Cooper asked: 'Would you consider it serious if a police officer serving in royal protection got access to the thrones of the Queen and Prince Philip, sat on them with their feet up, putting their thumbs up in a comical pose and having their photographs taken?

'Would that be a bad thing? That's just what you have done, isn't it?'

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Sergeant McGregor, who now works in Westminster, replied: 'I don't recall doing anything like that.'

it if you had sat on one of the thrones of the Queen and Prince Philip?'

-------------------------------Sergeant McGregor replied: 'I may have sat on one of the thrones, but I don't recall doing any comical poses.

--------------------------'We're not talking about criminal damage.

'Sitting on the Queen's throne is perhaps something to say you've done in your life to tell your grandkids about.'

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Asked if he thought it was 'disrespectful', he replied: 'It's not an ideal scenario.' Mr Cooper said it was an example of 'total disregard for the rules'. Sergeant McGregor also admitted he had 'nodded off' during a shift guarding the Queen. But he denied officers were routinely sleeping and covering for each other.

--------------------------He also described as ' ridiculous' the lawyer's suggestion he had used his police car for 'ferrying

monies and gifts' generated by the currency club.

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Referring to a supposed drugs racket, Mr Cooper said: 'Are you aware whether any officers you worked with have been involved with any other illicit, illegal dealings, such as the selling of steroids?'

--------------------Sergeant McGregor denied knowledge of this and another allegation of officers 'selling hardcore pornography' in locker rooms.

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Mr Cooper also accused Sergeant McGregor of using his privileged access to garden parties 'where members of the Royal Family were present' to schmooze investors.

He asked: 'Have you ever arranged for investors to illicitly attend, slip them in through the back door, uninvited and unvetted?'

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Sergeant McGregor denied this. He also denied offering parking spaces at Buckingham Palace, The Mall, and other royal households for friends on shopping trips.

The barrister also suggested officers had been both drunk and hungover at work and some were even handed guns while under the influence.

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'I'm not aware of that at all,' said Sergeant McGregor.

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Mr Page denies intimidation, threatening to take revenge, making a threat to kill and two counts of fraudulent trading - between January 1, 2003, and March 30, 2007.

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His wife pleaded not guilty to 'being concerned in an arrangement facilitating dealings with criminal property', intimidation and threatening to kill.

Sunday, 19 April 2009

May I have the brazen temerity to refer any gentle readers to the post made on this blog just a day or three ago regarding the extremely brutal 1833 policing of the London COLDBATH FIELDS DEMONSTRATION and the sensational (then) much celebrated popular reactive "justifiable homicide" killing of a police officer. Not especially surprising that the establishment of the day took stock and played things a little easily the following year.

Friday, 17 April 2009

BARKING MAD COPS IN "KETTLE THAT DOG" OP'.

------------------------ Click-click on image to ENLARGE details.------------There was a bonkers totally-over-the-top Cop Op' to retrieve a stick from dog in a Public Park in 2000 - the Park Authorities having forbidden dogs from playing with sticks urgently summoned Police who laid on a "Kettle" that dog op' - hence this contemporary KILROY Tee Shirt "DROP THAT STICK" design satire. Note a Cop about to "STICK" the boot in.

Thursday, 16 April 2009

G10 PROTESTS – ANTI DEMO RIOT BY 1500 PLUS LONDON COPS.

I500 plus Riot Police in London attack a political reform demonstration in Copenhagen Fields off the Grays Inn Road. ---------The year is 1833 when without any warning very many on the demonstration were attacked and brutalised by cops some of whom were drunk and who for the most part had been kept in hiding nearby. One copper, named Constable Culley was killed.------------An inquest into his death took place and the inquest jury sensationally decided that the police attack on the demonstration was so disgraceful, violent and uncalled for that the death of Culley amounted to "justifiable homicide". ---------The jurors were enormously feted and praised for their courageous principled decision. Gavin Thurston in his slightly grudging book (page 164) wrote “Never before in the history of our country has a jury been feted in such a way”.----------The State was in a true fix. It pulled various behind the scenes strokes to quietly circumnavigate the problem and only one demonstrator was ever put on trial at the Old Bailey and in that case too the jury gave a resounding “NOT GUILTY”.-----------No cops were ever put on trial of course.------

Sunday, 12 April 2009

IAN TOMLINSON - COP DEMO LIARS circa 1968/69 REVISITED.

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No there wasn't a great plot afoot, nor demonstrators doing devious deceptive dirty tricks with paint - it was real blood, fancy that. And the "paint deceit" cover-up allegation had originated with the police. It seems odd nowadays for The Sun to be open minded but it happended that that was how the cookie crumbled at the above juncture in 1968/69.

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Media distortions in relation to late 'Sixties public protest were grotesque and the police went in for continued wholesale fabrications - indeed so controversially so that yet another Penguin Special (1970) saw the light of day. We have already featured Mary Grigg's earlier 'Sixties Penguin Special HAROLD CHALLENOR gross police corruption volume in our previous blogspot.

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Cashinella and Borrell in THE TIMES had a propaganda and exageration field day in THE TIMES with scare stories about plots and extremist militants. The cuttings above tell their own unforgettable story. The exageration and downright deceits were not solely down to the tabloids oh no - the police were well able (then as now) to fix things with the so-called"quality press" too.

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Indeed in August 1975 when East End "GEORGE DAVIS IS INNOCENT OK!" campaigners in the dead of night non-violently sabotaged the Headingley Test Cricket Pitch wicket it was The Times 1968/9 hack Borrell who wrote that the Davis activists should be very brutally bombarded for a whole day with cricket balls.

Saturday, 11 April 2009

IAN TOMLINSON - "HELLO HELLO HELLO" VANILLA POLICING - PART 2.

Of course not all cops behave the way the G20 cowardly cop thug did who battoned and crashed IAN TOMLINSON to the ground just as they don't all occasionally get into streams of bananas behind the scenes four letter expletives even tho' they may also be part time lay preachers - as recalled re GREENWICH R DIVISION in VANILLA POLICING - part 1.

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However policing has certainly had its unsavoury moments. Indeed DENNIS NILSON the serial killer convicted back in 1983 had served as a police officer > here <>

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Of course the mid 'Sixties escapades involving London West End Division Police Detective Sergeant HAROLD CHALLENOR came to a head because he tried one time too many to fit up activists participating in a 1963 central London demo - he'd already been fitting people for years but came unstuck. Not as unstuck as he should have come by a long chalk because he never did time, never faced the music in court but was declared bonkers and required to leave the 'Met. His fellow officers must have well knew his methods but he was in the traditional "thief catcher" mould and so on and on he was allowed to sail.

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MARY GRIGG'Smid SixtiesPenguin Special paperback was something rather famous in its time. A relatively youngish tho' adult lady activist with whom I spoke on todays BETHNAL GREEN POLICE STATION to the BANK of ENGLAND memorial march for IAN TOMLINSON had never heard of CHALLENOR and so certainly not of his own book "TANKY CHALLENOR - SAS and the Met" (1990). I noticed that Challenor seemed not to get a single blogspot mention anywhere during my IAN TOMLINSON surfing during the past week.

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Having had 25 years or so to reflect on his doings and re-represent them for public consumption in 1990 Challenor proves to be rather fascinating on the shortcomings of the Met' and those against whom he operated for not having complained enough about him and he tells it in an extremely unvarnished way - indeed in an absolutely astonishing way. For your enlightenment on this you are referred to the precise excerpt from his TANKY epic at page 154 (reproduced above).

Thursday, 9 April 2009

IAN TOMLINSON, VANILLA POLICING? TIME TO WISE UP!

The death of IAN TOMLINSON given the video footage that has surfaced so clearly showing the cowardly brutal police attacks upon him on April 1 at the City of London G20 demonstration is focussing a lot of extremely critical attention on police behaviour and the strategies they resort to to beat the heat.

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Even Dororah Orr of the Independent newspaper appears to have > become unsettled Independent elements of those who attended and criticised the police at the Jean Charles de Menezes STOCKWELL COMMUNITY AND RESOURCES CENTREmeeting held two days after Menezes had been slaughtered. Why? Because those she criticised had dared to raise political concerns about police strategy and police accountability considerations etcetera etcetera. Anyway she is currently a touch more forthcoming. Deborah Orrmaybe or Deborah maybe not.

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It's high time to wise up about policing and wipe away misconceptions that the police are a vanilla organisation. When I worked as a Greenwich Council officer specifically seeking to achieve greater "local police accountability" there was a senior officer who was also a lay preacher - he attended of course the local COMMUNITY POLICE CONSULTATIVE GROUP and behaved with the usual studied traditional decorum. Unforgettably he came into my presence in a far less formal setting and believe me the stream of expletives he gave expression to would have brought the curtain down pronto pronto in a CONSULTATIVE GROUP setting. And would have brought a steeple down within a church setting.

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Vanilla policing is a myth. In the mid 'Seventies a very succesful direct action fight back campaign was waged to free fitted-up East Ender George Davis from a 20 year prison sentence. Eventually, with 17 years still to serve, he was let out by ROYAL PREROGATIVE OF MERCY. Police involved in the case were sent bananas by the campaign and by Davis's release.

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A year or so later Davis was caught bang to rights as the get-away driver on a bank robbery and it was a great result for policing. Police involved in the original fit-up very soon went into print with "YANKEE ONE and GEORGE DAVIS". This book was actually published by the police, by the POLICE REVIEW PUBLISHING COMPANY. It was very far from a vanilla policing epic. Indeed its pages are absolutely littered over and over with four letter word police expletives. "Vanilla policing" is a veneerial myth - below the surface coppering is far far more raw and unpleasant as indeed the IAN TOMLINSON episode is again so aptly demonstrating.

A year or three before Gilligan was born, here in the UK we got shot of the death penalty - even in those days we hadn't "topped" folk for graffiti vandalism. Presumably Gilligan had been chewing on the cud so in January 2007 thought a hint at further implied reform was worth an airing - presumably neither of the unfortunate 2 youth' were named DAVID KELLY.

G20 PIDDLERS AGAINST CAPITALISM.

About Me

See post < sCRAPBOOK STOCKWELL > text. I'm a Stockwell (London) pensioner, with diabetes type 2, have had radiotherapy treatment for cancer of the prostate, and am in regular need of public conveniences - for initial STOCKWELL TOILET WATCH purposes what else do you need to know?